Education Blogs

For more than 10 years, Junicon has supported a wonderful program at the Pamulaan Center for Indigenous Peoples Education in the Southern Philippines. This support has been enabled by the HOPE International Development Agency Japan, with whom Junicon collaborates to provide funding for students at the Pamulaan center.

The indigenous peoples of the Philippines have been marginalized and discriminated against because of their minority status. As a result, they have lost pride in their culture and have stopped using their own language.

Many indigenous peoples of the Philippines follow traditional farming practices but most do not hold titles to their land. As a result, they face problems such as malnutrition, high incidence of diseases and mortality due to limited access to natural resources and the influx of migrant farmers that have pushed them into poverty. HOPE International Development Agency has been supporting the Pamulaan Center since 2010.

HOPE-JP exceeded our goal in the crowdfunding campaign raising money to build a school for Cambodian children. The amount raised was in excess of 3.5 million Yen.

I have always believed that education is much more meaningful if it can contribute to solving the many ills creeping in our societies. That belief has been strengthened by my education at the Pamulaan Center for Indigenous People’s Education - University of Southeastern Philippines, an educational institution dedicated to the indigenous peoples in the Philippines.

Impressions from a HOPE Cambodia project visit – a student’s memoir by Sato Maeda, a Grade 11 student of Yokohama International School.

As the amount of education that youth can access greatly affects a community's ability to develop sustainably, this is an issue that HOPE is keen to address. Being able to address this, however, is also a positive indication of sustainable changes already taking place.